Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:23:36 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: document ext3 requirements |
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:08:10AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: > > Hmm, so if my dual-boot machine does not shutdown correctly and I boot > > accidentally in M$ Win where I use ext2 IFS driver and modify some > > stuff on the ext3 drive, after a while reboot to linux and the journal > > get re-played ... Mmm ... > > If the ext2 IFS driver mounts an ext3 file system that needs journal > replay, the IFS driver is broken (unless it can replay the journal, of > course - I stopped using that driver long ago, being unhappy with it).
Indeed; that's why there is a INCOMPAT NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag to prevent compliant ext2 implementations from mounting an ext3 filesystem that needs recovery. We've thought about most of these issues, almost a decade ago...
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